Random House New Releases - Nature - Animals - Wolveshttp://www.randomhouse.com/category/www.randomhouse.com2006-03-13T11:23:00-05:00The Hidden Life of Wolves by Robert Redfordwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781426210129"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781426210129" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781426210129">The Hidden Life of Wolves</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=163131">Jim Dutcher</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=163132">Jamie Dutcher</a><br> <b>Foreword by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=165070">Robert Redford</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 216 pages | National Geographic | Nature - Animals - Wolves; Nature - Animals; Nature | <b>$25.00</b> | 978-1-4262-1012-9 (1-4262-1012-4)<p>The photography is stunningly beautiful and the insights that Jim and Jamie Dutcher share with us opens a world of understanding into wolf behavior."&#160;<b>&ndash;<i>Apogee Photo Magazine</i></b><br><br>Delve into amazingly intimate wolf photography by Jim and Jamie Dutcher, a couple who spent many years living with a pack of wolves at the edge of Idaho's Sawtooth Wilderness, observing their complex social hierarchy. Here is the alpha pair, leaders of the pack, often the only couple that mate. Here are the pups, born with eyes shut in the spring, tousled by their mother through the first six weeks of life. Here is the omega wolf, lowest ranking wolf in the pack, whose subservience, often playful, alleviates pack tension. Here are moments of cooperation and moments of snarling dominance, moments of communication and affection. Here, too, are heartwarming moments of connection between the Dutchers and the wolves, caught in pictures that remind us how close the links are between wolves in the wild and the beloved family dog. <br><br>Short chapters introduce the wolves as individuals, describe the Dutchers' years of coming to know them, and address the complex conservation issues surrounding the near-extinction and now replenishment of the species in the wild. Sidebars explore myths about wolves, including Native American spirit stories, European fairy tales, and modern ranching hearsay.<br><br>For animal lovers, nature lovers, environmentalists, and especially dog lovers, this book shares the new understanding gained by six years of the authors' living intimately with wild wolves. Created to complement a traveling exhibition that makes its debut at Chicago's Field Museum in March 2013, it will also appeal to those unable to see the show.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97814262101292013-02-05T00:30:00-05:00Wolf by L. David Mechwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307819130"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307819130" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307819130">Wolf</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=64013">L. David Mech</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 392 pages | Doubleday | Nature - Animals - Wolves | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-307-81913-0 (0-307-81913-2)<p>Throughout the continents of Eurasia and North American primitive man evolved in association with wolves. Wolves competed with him as a hunter, and raided his flocks and herds. Inevitably, folklore became rich in tales of this powerful, resourceful creature.<br><br>Europeans reached North American with their attitudes already formed. The wilderness pressed in upon their tiny settlements in constant threat and all energies were devoted to destroying it and turning its inexhaustible resources to use. Over vast areas of the continent the wolf went down with the wilderness before the unprecedented effectiveness of our technological attack on the ecology of a continent.<br> <br>Today, however, there is a great tide of concern over the consequences of our assault on the wild lands and wild creatures on the continent, and more and more biologists are devoting their knowledge and energy to searching studies of our land and its native biota.<br><br>The wolf has been the subject of detailed study by a number of ecologists on this continent who make use of all the research devices now available. Much of our knowledge is very recent, is increasing rapidly, and has resulted from the work of a mere handful of keen, resourceful, and courageous students of wolf biology. This, the first book to attempt a complete account of the biology of the wolf, draws from years of field research and upon the rich literature from two continents.<br><br> --<i>From the foreword by </i>Ian McTaggert Cowan</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803078191302012-05-16T00:30:00-05:00Three Among the Wolves by Helen Thayerwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570618086"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781570618086" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570618086">Three Among the Wolves</a> A Couple and their Dog Live a Year with Wolves in the Wild<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=157338">Helen Thayer</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 256 pages | Sasquatch Books | Nature - Animals - Wolves | <b>$18.95</b> | 978-1-57061-808-6 (1-57061-808-9)<p>Helen and Bill Thayer, accompanied by their part-wolf, mostly Husky dog, Charlie, set out to live among wild wolf packs &amp;#8212; first in the Canadian Yukon and then in the Arctic. When they set up camp within 100 feet of a wolf den, they were greeted with apprehension. But they establish trust over time because the wolves accept Charlie as the alpha male of the newly arrived "pack." Readers travel with the Thayers as they learn about wolf family structure, view the intricacies of the hunt, the wolves&#8217; finely honed survival skills, and playfulness.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97815706180862011-03-01T00:30:00-05:00The Man Who Lives with Wolves by Penny Junorwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307464705"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307464705" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307464705">The Man Who Lives with Wolves</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=100888">Shaun Ellis</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=80546">Penny Junor</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 296 pages | Broadway Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Nature - Animals - Wolves | <b>$15.00</b> | 978-0-307-46470-5 (0-307-46470-9)<p>What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language so his howl is indistinguishable from theirs? To give up a normal life of relationships and family so that he can devote himself completely to the protection of these wild animals?<br><br>In <i>The Man Who Lives with Wolves</i>, Shaun Ellis reveals how his life irrevocably changed the first time he set eyes on a wolf. In exhilarating prose, he takes us from his upbringing in the wilds of Norfolk, England, to his survival training with British Army Special Forces to the Nez Perc&eacute; Indian lands in Idaho, where he first ran with a wolf pack for nearly two years.<br><br>Offering an extraordinary look into the lives of these threatened, misunderstood creatures, Ellis shares how he ate raw kill&ndash;and little else; washed rarely, and only in plain water; learned to bury his face into the carcasses of prey&ndash;and, when necessary, to defend his share of the kill; communicated with the pack by his howls and body language, which over time became seemingly identical to theirs; and observed from this unique vantage point how wolves give birth to and raise their young, and enforce order among the pack.<br><br>After years of living in the wild, Shaun Ellis was barely able to recognize the feral face that stared back at him from the mirror. And in <i>The Man Who Lives with Wolves</i>, we discover the life of a rare and fascinating man who abandoned civilization but never lost touch with his humanity.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803074647052010-10-05T00:30:00-05:00The Man Who Lives with Wolves by Penny Junorwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307464545"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307464545" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307464545">The Man Who Lives with Wolves</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=100888">Shaun Ellis</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=80546">Penny Junor</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 288 pages | Crown | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Nature - Animals - Wolves | <b>$11.99</b> | 978-0-307-46454-5 (0-307-46454-7)<p>What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language so his howl is indistinguishable from theirs? To give up a normal life of relationships and family so that he can devote himself completely to the protection of these wild animals?<br><br>In <i>The Man Who Lives with Wolves</i>, Shaun Ellis reveals how his life irrevocably changed the first time he set eyes on a wolf. In exhilarating prose, he takes us from his upbringing in the wilds of Norfolk, England, to his survival training with British Army Special Forces to the Nez Perc&eacute; Indian lands in Idaho, where he first ran with a wolf pack for nearly two years.<br><br>Offering an extraordinary look into the lives of these threatened, misunderstood creatures, Ellis shares how he ate raw kill&ndash;and little else; washed rarely, and only in plain water; learned to bury his face into the carcasses of prey&ndash;and, when necessary, to defend his share of the kill; communicated with the pack by his howls and body language, which over time became seemingly identical to theirs; and observed from this unique vantage point how wolves give birth to and raise their young, and enforce order among the pack.<br><br>After years of living in the wild, Shaun Ellis was barely able to recognize the feral face that stared back at him from the mirror. And in <i>The Man Who Lives with Wolves</i>, we discover the life of a rare and fascinating man who abandoned civilization but never lost touch with his humanity.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803074645452009-10-20T00:30:00-05:00Three Among the Wolves by Helen Thayerwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570614798"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781570614798" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570614798">Three Among the Wolves</a> A Couple and their Dog Live a Year with Wolves in the Wild<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=157338">Helen Thayer</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 256 pages | Sasquatch Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Nature - Animals - Wolves | <b>$18.95</b> | 978-1-57061-479-8 (1-57061-479-2)<p>Helen and Bill Thayer, accompanied by their part-wolf, mostly Husky dog, Charlie, set out to live among wild wolf packs &amp;#8212; first in the Canadian Yukon and then in the Arctic. When they set up camp within 100 feet of a wolf den, they were greeted with apprehension. But they establish trust over time because the wolves accept Charlie as the alpha male of the newly arrived "pack." Readers travel with the Thayers as they learn about wolf family structure, view the intricacies of the hunt, the wolves&#8217; finely honed survival skills, and playfulness.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97815706147982006-08-01T00:30:00-05:00